A new United Nations report says Canada isn’t getting the job done when it comes to providing food security to Indigenous peoples.
The report was presented in a nationwide telecast this morning by UN special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter and says the Canadian government needs a comprehensive rights-based national food strategy.
Gord Enns, the executive director of Heifer Canada, says access to healthy food has been a problem in Saskatoon’s inner city where many Aboriginal people live and that is why the Good Food Junction was created.
“There has been quite a bit of realization that there are food deserts in different parts of urban centres and this area of Saskatoon where Good Food Junction is located is an effort to provide people with better access to a grocery store,” he says.
The report is based on a UN visit to Canada last May.